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“Small businesses and large corporations alike are beginning to embrace Apple by supporting and purchasing iPhones, iPads and Macintosh computers for their employees and by creating applications for their customers’ Apple devices,” Goldman reports. “Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, noted on a July conference call with analysts that 50% of Fortune 100 companies are already deploying or thinking about using the iPad for corporate use and 80% were supporting the iPhone.”
Goldman reports, “Adoption from the so-called enterprise market is far lower for Macs, but also growing. Although 75% of businesses have a Mac on the premises, only 25% of companies have a “significant” number of Macs (30 or more), according to a survey conducted by tech sector analysis firm ITIC. Just 7% of companies have at least 250 Macs, though that’s up significantly from only 2% in 2008. By 2013, ITIC forecasts that number will jump to 16%.”
MacDailyNews Take: As the current crop of aging IT doofuses retire or get pink-slipped or, uh, “otherwise move on,” bright, efficient, and productive Mac-using IT people will take their place. Then The Dark Age of Personal Computing, an age in which we have never participated except to marvel at the insanity of it all from behind our vastly superior Macs, will finally end. The last bastion of resistance and stodgy backwards thinking is dying off. Hallelujah! Welcome, productivity! Buh-bye unnecessary hair-pulling stress!
Goldman reports, “Macs have long had a place in the office, though they were typically relegated to the graphics and marketing teams. But IT departments are reporting a growing trend, in which employees across the whole company are starting to ask for Apple products to be supported. Tech managers are starting to cave in. ITIC’s survey found that 79% of IT departments say they’ll allow more employees to use Macs in 2011, and 82% will increase iPhone integration for e-mail and applications.”
Read more in the full article here.
Count me in as a Mac using IT person. Even though our company mainly uses windoze boxes, our mail is Cyrus IMAP on a XServer. Screw exchange and MS licensing, with Apple you get unlimited licenses for $995. And our mail works great. For the Enterprise.
Count me in as a Mac using IT person. Even though our company mainly uses windoze boxes, our mail is Cyrus IMAP on a XServer. Screw exchange and MS licensing, with Apple you get unlimited licenses for $995. And our mail works great. For the Enterprise.
“… As the current crop of aging IT doofuses retires…”
Hey I resemble that remark!
“… As the current crop of aging IT doofuses retires…”
Hey I resemble that remark!
To mdn’s take:
then apple better start competing on price pronto.
ITpeople don’t make the ultimate buying decision senior management does and their focus will still be on the bottom line no matter how shiny MacBooks get.
To mdn’s take:
then apple better start competing on price pronto.
ITpeople don’t make the ultimate buying decision senior management does and their focus will still be on the bottom line no matter how shiny MacBooks get.
Retire…
Ain’t no body retirin’ no mo. Dem waz de olden daze.
Retire…
Ain’t no body retirin’ no mo. Dem waz de olden daze.
@Jim
It’s more IT than you know. Sr. Mgt. will defer to IT if IT says one technology or another is a game changer.
@Jim
It’s more IT than you know. Sr. Mgt. will defer to IT if IT says one technology or another is a game changer.
The new version of Office has Outlook and a fuller featured messaging app. Not fully on par with Windoze version, but much closer for those who need it.
Pages, Keynote, Numbers & Bento work just fine for me.
The new version of Office has Outlook and a fuller featured messaging app. Not fully on par with Windoze version, but much closer for those who need it.
Pages, Keynote, Numbers & Bento work just fine for me.
@theloniousMac
Not if the proposal for Mac sytems is 3 times the cost.
When IT says “But they work better…” Mngt will just say “Isn’t that what I pay you for??To fix things that go wrong?”
Any cost consious company would rather save a lot on the system and let their IT group maintain problems as they arise. Since they paying them anyway.
It’s all about the bottom line.
@theloniousMac
Not if the proposal for Mac sytems is 3 times the cost.
When IT says “But they work better…” Mngt will just say “Isn’t that what I pay you for??To fix things that go wrong?”
Any cost consious company would rather save a lot on the system and let their IT group maintain problems as they arise. Since they paying them anyway.
It’s all about the bottom line.
The end-around that Apple has done to the entrenched Windows using strongholds will be studied in business schools for years to come and marveled at.
Sadly most business people will never learn the real lesson, and that it you cant let the marketing or sales people be the a substitute for the real creative people who are drivers of success.
The day Apple will start declining is the day the bean counters take over.
The end-around that Apple has done to the entrenched Windows using strongholds will be studied in business schools for years to come and marveled at.
Sadly most business people will never learn the real lesson, and that it you cant let the marketing or sales people be the a substitute for the real creative people who are drivers of success.
The day Apple will start declining is the day the bean counters take over.
You just think Enterprise is Apple’s final frontier. Apple has and will continue tp create and define frontiers that don’t even exist yet.
You just think Enterprise is Apple’s final frontier. Apple has and will continue tp create and define frontiers that don’t even exist yet.
@Jim,
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You must be new here, … or just trolling thru.
“then apple better start competing on price pronto.”
Apple is already there. When you look at the total price and even on the box price of higher level systems (not cheapest box of c**p units) Apple has been doing great for years now.
and you can run Windows if you really need to on the same machine.
Just a thought,
en
@Jim,
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You must be new here, … or just trolling thru.
“then apple better start competing on price pronto.”
Apple is already there. When you look at the total price and even on the box price of higher level systems (not cheapest box of c**p units) Apple has been doing great for years now.
and you can run Windows if you really need to on the same machine.
Just a thought,
en
@Jim
If you think the only thing the Apple solution offers are shiny boxes then I think you’ve missed the point entirely.
@Jim
If you think the only thing the Apple solution offers are shiny boxes then I think you’ve missed the point entirely.
After four years in a senior position in my public agency, I was finally able to convince them to embrace macs. It started with the iPhone then iPads and now macs. Some employees resist. They are so accustomed to the old way. But progress is steady.
That said, I think Apple needs to deal with enterprise customers differently. For example, going through regular support channels can be tedious.
After four years in a senior position in my public agency, I was finally able to convince them to embrace macs. It started with the iPhone then iPads and now macs. Some employees resist. They are so accustomed to the old way. But progress is steady.
That said, I think Apple needs to deal with enterprise customers differently. For example, going through regular support channels can be tedious.
50% to 75% of the college students are using Macs. They will not give them up willingly.
Once you go Mac you never go back!